BookFeed Ελληνικά If The Honorary Consul stayed with you, these share its feel: faith, love and power. Each comes with a real page, so you can tell in a minute.
About The Honorary Consul · Graham Greene
Umberto Eco, 1980
Also faith and power. A murder mystery inside a labyrinthine medieval library, where a novice and his detective-monk argue theology, read forbidden books, and count the dead.
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came. John Grisham, 2012
Also unease and power. A disbarred lawyer in a minimum-security federal camp explains the rules of his new life—and what a man with nothing left can do with them.
Eight months and six days after I began my time, I received a thick envelope. Prisoners crave mail, but this was one package I could have done without. It was from a law firm in Fairfax, Virginia, one that represented my wife, who, surprisingly, wanted a divorce. In a matter of weeks, Dionne had gone from being a supportive wife, dug in for the long haul, to a fleeing victim who desperately wanted out. I couldn’t believe it. I read the papers in absolute shock, my knees rubbery and my eyes wet, and when I was afraid I might start crying, I hustled back to my cell for some privacy. There are a lot of tears in prison, but they are always hidden. William Peter Blatty, 1971
Also faith and unease. A priest-psychiatrist is asked to explain a child's illness that medicine cannot. A horror novel less about the devil than about belief, guilt and the cost of certainty.
The blaze of sun wrung pops of sweat from the old man’s brow, yet he cupped his hands around the glass of hot sweet tea as if to warm them. Donna Tartt, 1992
Also love. A California scholarship boy is taken up by a circle of Greek students at an elite Vermont college — and by the thing they have done. A novel about beauty, envy and the cost of belonging.
DOES SUCH a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. Ana Huang, 2022
Also longing and love. For readers who like their romance dark-edged: an obsessive man, a woman who doubts her worth, and a love that feels like danger and shelter at once.
“Stella!” My heart rate sped up. Nothing triggered my fight-or-flight response like the sound of Meredith’s voice. “Yes?” I hid my trepidation behind a neutral expression. Anthony Burgess, 1962
Also unease and morality. A teenage gang leader who loves violence and Beethoven tells his story in his own invented slang, until the state offers to cure him of choosing.
"The four of us were dressed in the height of fashion, which in those days was a pair of black very tight tights with the old jelly mould, as we called it, fitting on the crotch underneath the tights, this being to protect and also a sort of a design you could viddy clear enough in a certain light, so that I had one in the shape of a spider. Pete had a rooker (a hand, that is), Georgie had a very fancy one of a flower, and poor old Dim had a very hound-and-horny one of a clown’s litso (face, that is). Dim not ever having much of an idea of things and being, beyond all shadow of a Doubting Thomas, the dimmest of we four. E. L. James, 2011
Also power and longing. A student reporter interviews a controlled young billionaire, and what begins as a nervous assignment turns into a negotiation of desire, power, and boundaries.
James Michener, 1985
Also power and faith. Michener follows Texas from colonial Mexico to the oil age, tracing the people and collisions that made a state feel like a nation.
Robert Ludlum, 1982
Also power and unease. A CIA officer in Prague watches a woman he loves walk into a secret-police trap—and cannot decide whether she is a killer or a pawn.
Gustave Flaubert, 1856
Also longing and love. A provincial doctor's wife reads too many novels and then marries one; the most exact book ever written about wanting a life bigger than the one you've got.
Neil Gaiman, 2001
Also faith and unease. A newly released convict takes a job with a mysterious conman and discovers that old gods, brought to America by immigrants, are preparing for war with the new.
Caroline Kepnes, 1965
Also love and power. A bookseller's charming voice turns obsession into a love story you can't look away from—and can't quite trust.
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